TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fraser,Susan M.
AU  - Sellers,Vanessa Bezemer
ED  - New York Botanical Garden,
ED  - New York Botanical Garden
ED  - Yale University Press
TI  - Flora illustrata: great works from the LuEsther T. Mertz Library of the New York Botanical Garden 
SN  - 9780300196627
AV  - Art/QK98.3 .N48 2014
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Bronx, New York, New Haven, London
PB  - The New York Botanical Garden, Yale University Press
KW  - LuEsther T. Mertz Library
KW  - Catalogs
KW  - History
KW  - Botanical libraries
KW  - New York (State)
KW  - New York
KW  - Book collecting
KW  - Botany
KW  - Bibliography
KW  - Horticulture
KW  - Botanical illustration
KW  - Illustrated books
KW  - Rare books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-288) and index; Noble science : building the library collection; Susan M. Fraser; --European medieval and Renaissance herbals; Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi; --"Plants in their perfection" : the botanical garden and the illustrated book; Therese O'Malley; --Pleasure gardens in print : recreation and education in the landscape, 1550-1850; Vanessa Bezemer Sellers; --Linnaeus and the foundation of modern botany; Gina Douglas; --New World explorations : Brazil; H. Walter Lack; --Creating a North American flora; Elizabeth S. Eustis with David Andrews; --Early American horticultural traditions : gardening with plants from the New World; Mark Laird; --Toward an American landscape theory; Judith K. Major; --The horticultural enterprise : markets, mail, and media in nineteenth-century America; Elizabeth S. Eustis; --"An American Kew"; Elizabeth Barlow Rogers
N2  - The renowned LuEsther T. Mertz Library of The New York Botanical Garden counts among its holdings many of the most beautiful and pioneering botanical and horticultural works ever created. More than eight centuries of knowledge, from the twelfth century to the present, are represented in the library's collection of over one million items. In this sumptuously illustrated volume, international experts introduce us to some of the library's most fascinating works--exceedingly rare books, stunning botanical artworks, handwritten manuscripts, Renaissance herbals, nursery catalogs, explorers' notebooks, and more. The contributors hold these treasures up for close inspection and offer surprising insights into their histories and importance
ER  -